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All Lit Up, 22/11/2024
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All Lit Up, 27/06/2024
5 Speculative and Science Fiction Novels to Get Lost In
Book Trib, 22/08/2024
What We’re Reading: Staff Writers’ Picks, Spring 2024
Hamilton Review of Books, 05/04/2024
Excerpt in Civilian Reader
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All Lit Up, 06/02/2024
Reviews: The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
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Jake Casella Brookins, Locus, May 2024
“Shot through with love stories, anger at authoritarian cruelty, and surreal and striking visions, it’s an elegiac and ruminative novel – a strange but moving meditation on death and change and what comes after.”
Libby O’Neil, Full Stop, July 2024
“[THE YEARS SHALL RUN LIKE RABBITS] exemplifies the power of science fiction to explore of the edges of experience where the artificial, the natural, and the sacred come together.
Scale, and the Power it Holds: Review of Ben Berman Ghan’s The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits
Eden Kupermintz, The Ancilliary Review of Books, May 2024
“Ghan is an expert craftsperson of prose. The language in The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits is beautifully and meticulously constructed around these themes, even to the point of obsession, in how it circles, examines, and re-articulates the core ideas of the book.”
Laurie Burns, The Miramichi Reader, May 2024
“This book reads like a technicolour acid trip, confusion and chaos in the best way, difficulty finding your footing, excited to see what is next. It also has incredibly poetic prose and big, imaginative ideas and could be called a genre-defying piece of work, horror and sci-fi, literary, and dystopian. This is a great read for anyone who finds themselves constantly asking, “where is this world going?” and feeling worried about it.”
Samantha Purchase, Freefall Magazine, November 2024
Dystopian, speculative, timely, and timeless, Ghan’s work illuminates a world I feel we are already halfway to. But where Ghan could wallow in misery or doom, he deftly injects compassion, a grace, that flows throughout the novel and offers something beyond a warning–a way forward. If you are looking for something singular, a blend of cyberpunk and post-humanism, a story told in lurches and stops, look no further. I’ve never read anything like it.
“Look, I loved it, but can you please explain to me what was going on”
D.A. Lockhart, The Fiddlehead, October 2025
“The future is resplendent in life and miracles in this universe. And the mysteries that land us there are worth chasing, full of beauty and suffering, and are the very essence worth reaching. Ghan’s book draws us to these ends through a mesh of sublime lyric narrative.”
Kirti Bhadresa, All Lit Up, November 2025
“Ben Berman Ghan is a magician with words. He takes the ordinary, the familiar and recognizable, and reimagines it. The world he creates is kaleidoscopic, alive with colour and movement.”
Reviews: What We See in the Smoke
“With each story, we leap forward, and, with each leap forward, we have to relearn the rules of the narrative in much the same way that a time traveller would have to relearn the world. This makes for a unique and a uniquely compelling experience.” Aaron Schneider for The Temz Review issue 9
“Although the same city in different time periods can be unrecognizable, Ben Berman Ghan’s Toronto in What We See in the Smoke has kept some street names and locations even as the physical place moved from Earth in 2016 to Janus in 3036.” Catherine Lu for Augur Magazine
“Despite its unique motley demeanour, What We See ends up being a novel rich in motifs that the average Torontonian can recognize and understand. A mixture of the heinous and the righteous, and a spark of constant renewal that keeps it all in flux, Ben Ghan’s debut is a solid underscoring of the Torontonian ethos.”Liam Bryant for The Varsity
“What We See in the Smoke is a beautifully written, dark novel that I recommend to every type of book lover. Sci-fi fans, dystopia dreamers, and Toronto lovers. It’s a brilliant, unique piece of fiction, and if you can handle some darkness, take a peek into what fate holds for dear old Toronto.”Emma McQuiggan for The White Wall Review
“What we see in the smoke is not about what happened to Earth and why. It is about living with what is happening, war or no war, space station or planet. The protagonists in each of the stories do the best that they can with the situation they have been put in, whether it is to find their loved ones or save them.”Kriti Khare for The Nerd Daily
“an interesting and unusual collection/novel, and one I can whole-heartedly recommend!” Markus Thierstein for The ScifiFantasy Network
Interviews
E411 with BEN BERMAN GHAN
Interview with Jamie Tennant,
October 2024
Lunar Forests, Interplanetary War, and Cyberpunk Heroes Are Just the Beginning in Ben Berman Ghan’s Debut Novel
OpenBook interview, June 2024
Ben Berman Ghan 